Why Kubernetes?

This week on Ship It! Gerhard talks with Lars Wikman (independent Elixir/BEAM software consultant) why sometimes a monolith running on a single host with continuous backups and a built-in self-restore capability is everything that a small team of developers needs. That’s right, no Kubernetes or microservices. After 2 years of running changelog.com, a Phoenix monolith, on Kubernetes, what do I think? Join our discuss and find out!

This week on Ship It! Gerhard talks with Lars Wikman (independent Elixir/BEAM software consultant) why sometimes a monolith running on a single host with continuous backups and a built-in self-restore capability is everything that a small team of developers needs. That’s right, no Kubernetes or microservices. After 2 years of running changelog.com, a Phoenix monolith, on Kubernetes, what do I think? Join our discuss and find out!

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Featuring:

Lars Wikman – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteGerhard Lazu – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

🎬Follow-up YouTube stream
Post-mortem: 10 years in the vertical: Part 1
Beam Bloggers Webring
Litestream - Continuously stream SQLite changes to an object store
Teaching Elixir & other videos
Live stream - PromEx w. Alex Koutmos
Regular Programming, conversations about software development and programming
BEAM Radio - Stories and conversations around Elixir, Erlang and the BEAM ecosystem

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